A bargaining session which ended in the pre-dawn hours Friday morning brought an agreement to settle the strike of unionized fund-raising employees of the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of Greater New York.
Spokesman for the Community and Social Agencies Employees Local 1707, American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, and for the Federation confirmed the agreement but said no details would be released until a meeting tomorrow of the union members to ratify its terms. The Federation spokesman said Federation officials also planned to act tomorrow on the agreement. Picketing ended Friday morning, the spokesmen said.
The strike started on Nov. 6 after weeks of talks failed to produce a new agreement at the Federation where the contract had expired last July 1, Some 400 union members of the United Jewish Appeal of Greater New York, where the union contract is in effect until Jan, 31, observed picket lines.
The Federation spokesman said agreement had been reached on terms of new contracts for both agencies but declined to explain why another contract agreement had been negotiated for the New York UJA. He said information on that aspect of the negotiations also was being withheld pending union ratification.
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